Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II

In accordance with established practice among scholars of mass persuasion, the word propaganda is used throughout this work not in the
popular pejorative sense, but as a specific term to describe the act of
mass persuasion. Propaganda cannot be defined by the nature of the
material propagated; the definition must rest on the intent underlying
the dissemination or, as in the case of censorship, the suppression of
the material in question. Although Britain's wartime Ministry of Information and other agents of British propaganda consistently sought
to avoid this term in describing their American activities, no other
word is appropriate. The success of their endeavors demonstrates the
inadequacy of popular notions of propaganda and of barriers against
propaganda founded on such preconceptions.

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Book title: Selling War:The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II.
Contributors: Nicholas John Cull - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1995.
Page number: xi.

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